Category Archives: UBC Strategic Efforts

NIME Paper

I received a copy of Tony Bates’ new book, “Managing Technology in Higher Education” in the mail today… which was a welcome surprise. It reminded me that I needed to post a copy of a paper that he mentions in … Continue reading

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Integrated Support Systems

This article has been sitting in my “unpublished entries” of my weblog for a while (since march 2004? yikes!) — I have a habit of storing and forgetting to go back. Not good — another end of year resolution to … Continue reading

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ELI Innovations/Implementations: UBC’s Ancient Spaces Project

I was checking my Blogline’s Account — the Educause Feed, and was linked by an Elisa Coghlan post to a 2 page summary of UBC’s Ancient Spaces Project. – Home Page for the Ancient Spaces Project: http://ancient.arts.ubc.ca/ (or www.ancientspaces.com) – … Continue reading

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“Quality” / Benchmarking – Workshop resources

Following a series of weblinks this morning has been entertaining… One site I wanted to bookmark and go back to is at the Univ Victoria, Wellington Site: NZ E-Learning Capability Determination Workshop: Example Documents Describing e-Learning Quality http://www.utdc.vuw.ac.nz/research/emm/WorkshopGuidelines.shtml

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A Bow of Respect and Thanks…

Over the last days a team of UBC students — Michelle Chua Frank Pan Tyler Pirtle Enej Bajgoric (I can’t imagine he was not involved somehow along the way..) Remember those names, folks… —- with the guidance of Brian, Novak … Continue reading

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Open Source Ratings System

There is a mix of scholarly discussion and excitement associated with open source software. I think all of us are struggling with understanding how to move ahead with the constant changes that take place. As well – we’re definitely torn … Continue reading

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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Journal

We have a new institute for the scholarship of teaching and learning here at UBC (see http://www.tag.ubc.ca/about/institute/ISoTL.php). I saw a link to MountainRise, an electronic journal designed to publish this type of research on the EduResources Weblog–Higher Education Resources Online … Continue reading

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UBC’s CMS Steering Committee

After more than a year of planning, meetings and conversations, we’ve established a Steering Committee, as outlined in: New Steering Committee Launched to Guide UBC’s Course Management System . We have very high hopes for this model. UBC obviously has … Continue reading

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EFFECT – JCALT National Audit of Learning Technologies Staff

I’m even more of a fan of JISC now. The JCALT Project Career Development Study that performed an “audit” of the roles and responsibilities of the various type of people employed in supporting learning technologies. This area is one that … Continue reading

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Libraries Strategic report – The 2003 Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition

Via Educational Technology, come a link to what looks like a comprehensive survey report, 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition, from the OCLC Online Computer Library Center (a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization based in Dublin, Ohio): … Continue reading

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